a strange day
Dec. 5th, 2002 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanWhat a strange day it's been thus far.
I got to work and made my morning cup of tea and had just settled in at my desk to start working when the fire alarm went off. Well, after a moment of ignoring it (long habit -- in my apartment, if the fire alarm goes off it means you breathed at it funny), I wised up, grabbed my coat and tea-mug, and evacuated the building along with everyone else. There was a definite smell of smoke in the lobby -- the electrical-fire sort of smell.
Well, the fire trucks came roaring up and the firemen went to do their thing, so the rest of us decided to get out of the cold by going into the little bookshop/cafe next door. The employees were quite startled by the sudden influx -- I'm sure it's usually very quiet there at that time of day. Many of us started browsing for Xmas gifts, others bought coffee at the little cafe, etc. Randomly, one of my coworkers' daughter happened by with her baby, so there was much cooing and so forth, but the baby was cranky on account of just having had shots.
Eventually the firemen left and we went back to work. The smell was still around but it dissipated gradually. And then the snow started (outside, not in the building *g*). We were just glad it started *after* the whole evacuation thing.
And then of course after something like that it's hard to get one's head back into work. And then I heard about Glenn Quinn apparently dying, although no one seems to know how or why (well, how. There's never really a why, is there). And then there was the post from a woman who just found out her 5-year-old son was molested by another kid at school. :(
And meanwhile I'm trying to get all ready for my trip. I'm trying to wrap up the work that needs to be done, I've downloaded and printed out lists of vegetarian restaurants in both Japan and Hawaii (plus instructions for saying "is this food vegetarian?" in Japanese, thanks to posters in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
vegetarian), I've bought some munchies for the plane, I've gone nomail on some Yahoogroups lists (because yeah, there's three days yet till I leave, but knowing Yahoo it will be the whole three days before they actually stop sending me email), and, uh, other stuff too.
It's just a weird feeling, being excited about the trip and at the same time sad about the bad stuff that's happening, and stressed about everything. I stress way too easily. Yeah.
Oh, and to top it all off, it's snowing a lot harder now. I gotta keep an eye on it lest it get too bad and I decide that I need to leave work early. Sigh.
I got to work and made my morning cup of tea and had just settled in at my desk to start working when the fire alarm went off. Well, after a moment of ignoring it (long habit -- in my apartment, if the fire alarm goes off it means you breathed at it funny), I wised up, grabbed my coat and tea-mug, and evacuated the building along with everyone else. There was a definite smell of smoke in the lobby -- the electrical-fire sort of smell.
Well, the fire trucks came roaring up and the firemen went to do their thing, so the rest of us decided to get out of the cold by going into the little bookshop/cafe next door. The employees were quite startled by the sudden influx -- I'm sure it's usually very quiet there at that time of day. Many of us started browsing for Xmas gifts, others bought coffee at the little cafe, etc. Randomly, one of my coworkers' daughter happened by with her baby, so there was much cooing and so forth, but the baby was cranky on account of just having had shots.
Eventually the firemen left and we went back to work. The smell was still around but it dissipated gradually. And then the snow started (outside, not in the building *g*). We were just glad it started *after* the whole evacuation thing.
And then of course after something like that it's hard to get one's head back into work. And then I heard about Glenn Quinn apparently dying, although no one seems to know how or why (well, how. There's never really a why, is there). And then there was the post from a woman who just found out her 5-year-old son was molested by another kid at school. :(
And meanwhile I'm trying to get all ready for my trip. I'm trying to wrap up the work that needs to be done, I've downloaded and printed out lists of vegetarian restaurants in both Japan and Hawaii (plus instructions for saying "is this food vegetarian?" in Japanese, thanks to posters in
vegetarian), I've bought some munchies for the plane, I've gone nomail on some Yahoogroups lists (because yeah, there's three days yet till I leave, but knowing Yahoo it will be the whole three days before they actually stop sending me email), and, uh, other stuff too.It's just a weird feeling, being excited about the trip and at the same time sad about the bad stuff that's happening, and stressed about everything. I stress way too easily. Yeah.
Oh, and to top it all off, it's snowing a lot harder now. I gotta keep an eye on it lest it get too bad and I decide that I need to leave work early. Sigh.
